Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-01-14
amount the Committee to examine the
Commissioned report saws.

LIST. Said report docs not relate the financial
transactions Of said board for the year in this ;
That It docs not show the levy of taxes for the
year, under general and special laws. II does
not show the Issuing OF about si85,0O0 OF bonds,
for which the county is originally aud colatcr.
ally liable. Other important financial transact
ions involving very large expenditure OF
money, Rrc not mentioned In said report.
This same Commissioners report, for
the year ending Sept, 1st, 1891, which
j. G. IL. Elder and j. w. Canary, Exam
in.ng committee, sny docs not show the
''issuing OF about $780, Geo of bonds, "
and "other. .anancial transactions involv
ing very large expenditure Of money
ARE not mentioned in said report" was
published in the Sentinel and Democrat at
an expense of $629, or S20l each, at
legal rates. The report was loaded out
and spread out with large display head
ings and made to cover about one fourth
more space than it should have done in
each and rs is provided for by plain
provision of the statutes, known to these
editors and officers, and which in coun-
tios where they have any regard foc
law or justice is made penitentiary
ofrensc. Prosecutor Parker, by virtue
of his office, is member of the commit
tee to examine the { commissioners re-
port. AS still further blind to the
people the Sentinel published the follow
ing item in the same issue with the re-
port:
Prosecutor Parker's name does not
appear with those of the other examin-
ers of the Commissioners report, Messrs.
Canary and Elder. In answer to the
question why this is so, Mr.. Parker said
yesterday that owing TO the cxtraordin-
airy amount of criminal business on his
hands he had not had time to make the
investigation he wants to and that after
careful investigation he might want to
submit n minority rcport-buL of what
nature he did not intimate"
Has any one ever heard of his making
any investigation or any minority re-
port? 1t is too transparent for any in
tclligent person to overlook, that it was
done to produce delay, in case the peo
Pile demanded to know what had become
of their money, and keep them waiting
for his report until the matter would &C
by default and be forgotten, also to re-
lieve Mr.. Parker as an officer sworn tc
do his duty.
Was ever people more brutally anG
wantonly robbed under the forms and
sanction of law and those selected toad
minister the same?
Do not the Taxpayers know that the,
ought to ask their Representative to ure,
the repeal Of the law authorizing the Com
missioneis 10 issue an unlimited amour
Of bonds whenever they so desire? Or vii
they continue to stand, ho'd up their hand
and let them go through their pockets?
P. S.-We have deviated slightly from
the subject of our text, purposely, how
ever, to illustrate how easily the money
can be filched from the people and pu
into the treasury and how easily it cal
be stolen out of the treasury under til,
laws as they now stand and are admin
istered, while the people stand idly by
and look on and whimper about higl
taxes, Since the above was written, we
also learn that it has been mentione
within the past few days in the Toledo
papers that one of the Toledo Represen-
tatives is actually preparing bill to
submit to the Legislature to authorize
Treasurers to loan the peoples money tt
banks. 1t should be most effectuall,
sat down upon as soon as introduced.